Reserve Jamal Shead scored a career-high 19 points as the Toronto Raptors overcame a 21-point deficit to defeat the visiting Orlando Magic 107-106.
Brandon Ingram added 17 points for the Raptors, who have won two straight. Scottie Barnes had 13 points and 11 rebounds and made the decisive free throws in the final seconds. Gradey Dick scored 15 points, and Sandro Mamukelashvili tallied 13. Ochai Agbaji and Ja’Kobe Walter each scored 10 points, and Collin Murray-Boyles had four points and 12 rebounds.
Anthony Black scored 16 of his 27 points in the third quarter for the Magic, who opened a three-game road trip. Paolo Banchero added 23 points, 10 assists and 15 rebounds.
Desmond Bane scored 18 points, and Tyus Jones recorded 10.
Orlando led by as many as 21 points in the first half, but the margin had shrunk to 10 entering the fourth quarter. Barnes nailed a 3-pointer to reduce the lead to two with 5:46 to play. Shead tied the game at 102 on a driving dunk with 4:42 to play after Barnes grabbed a defensive rebound. Ingram’s jumper gave Toronto the lead with 4:07 to play. Orlando regained a one-point lead on Wendell Carter Jr.’s jumper with 1:41 left. Carter fouled out, and Barnes made both free throws as Toronto regained a one-point lead. Banchero missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer to end the game.
The Magic led 29-18 after one quarter.
Orlando used a 10-0 surge, capped by Banchero’s corner 3-pointer, to open a 45-25 lead with 7:43 to play in the second quarter. The lead reached 21 with 6:07 to play before the Raptors rallied and used the fast break to reduce the margin to nine with 2:42 left on Shead’s layup. Banchero completed the first half by swishing a catch-and-shoot, 15-foot high-arcing jumper that gave Orlando a 65-54 lead.
The lead shrunk to five on Mamukelashvili’s three-point play with 6:07 left in the third quarter. Orlando rallied to lead by 14 on Black’s 3-pointer with 2:01 remaining. Orlando led 94-84 after three quarters.
Orlando’s Jonathan Isaac left the game early in the first quarter with a sore left knee and did not return.
Toronto was without RJ Barrett (knee injury management) and Jakob Poeltl (strained back).
–Field Level Media
